Some slashdotters have already identified this technique of using a combination of using javascript, xml, and dhtml has been around for some time (the article even says its mature). It has been refferred to in the past as javascript remoting or dhtml depending on what your talking about. I work for a company with a web database app that uses a similar technique. Our product, Sysbotz Enterprise has been in development about a year now which show you the age here.
I think the big deal here is not some much the technique or the new label they are giving it (ajax). Rather a educational effort to inform developers to thing past the traditional load page, post form, process, return results back to web browser concept of web apps. The web app needs to broaden its abilities and needs to be more interactive which greatly limits its uses.
I have seen those numbers too, but they are based on proto-type versions of games, not the final retail games. This is probably the reason why most news outlet sources are holding back from giving actual battery life stats, until the final version of the games come out.
Still, when you also factor into that preliminary figure of 4-6 hours of game play the 10-20 seconds of load time, various other second of load time (game menu, etc), and in between game load time, the actual time you get to control the action will be less. Plus current generation PS2 games are using data streaming from CD to reduce load time which according to Sony will be a no no on the PSP. So I would expect the load time to be even greater on the PSP games compared to the current crop of PS2 games.
My other complaint with the PSP is its control scheme, it has a D-Pad and Analog pad on the same side of the system, resulting in a controller layout thats not very good for first-person or 3rd person perspective games (where on controls the movement the other view). They should have put the analog pad on the other side in my opinion, or put a 2nd analog pad on the other side. Similar to any current console system.
SimpleData CRM/ERP business software. Works on IE and Netscape, and runs on open-source amp (apache mysql php) platform. I work for this company and we have already over a 100 company sites using it.
I actually left a good job for personal reasons (What? I know, I loved that job, but I wanted to move closer to my family). I moved to a new area and couldn't find Tech work there at all (Pennsylvania). So I started a business with my own savings called Sysbotz and it takes time to get a viable software business going. Like some one mentioned before its not always what you think that will sell, but what the customer thinks. The major tip I could give is to listen to the customer, that includes checking up on how there doing, seeing if they see anything that needs improvements. Like what was mentioned before too, it may take a few months of not making anything before you see anything, so plan for this too. Open source projects are a great starting point too and could use the help, if you see a viable open source project why not contribute some of you new found spare time and offer business services around it.
I have received over 30 emails with this virus attached today already. From what I've seen, some come in the email described in the article post, but I have also seen emails containing this virus that look like this:
The following email is encoded in UNICODE format please see attachment for message.
- or -
This file is encoded in 7Bit ascii format please see attachment for message.
The attachment is always 22.6k in size. Thought windows slashdotters would be interested in this info.
This is great news, but I'm still stuck until Fireworks MX will run under Linux.
I was able to get Dreamweaver MX and Flash MX to run under Wine to some success. But both where some what unstable (Enough to be unusable) and looking at the bronze rating it was given, Codeweaver states not to "depend" on a program with this rating, so I will wait a little more...
Fireworks on the other hand, I never could get running. And searching the web could never find anyone that got it running under wine.
Codeweaver if you are listening. Most developers/designers who use Dreamweaver or Flash also use Fireworks, and it would be great if you could work to get that working too.
I work and develope for this company, but we make a program called 'Systems Panel' that pretty much fits your requirements. It also has the ability to centralize IT links, downloads, and technical article.
What I mean by finnicky is certain configuration aspects could be automatically filled in for you during the install, but instead it makes you fill out the whole configuration file when installing new software. Maybe this isn't particularly related to the OS but it has a effect on the whole Linux experience. Some might say this is a good thing, look what happens when the system does to much automatically. Like Windows, people install by clicking next the whole time and never give consideration to security. But at the same time do I really need to specify what my library paths are or the like. Can't this stuff be auto detected during install. Though once every thing is running things work great.
Another idea maybe to have a program that compares md5 checksums between a number of computer systems on a network instead. Considering most people will deploy the same OS and alot of the same version binaries across a bunch of there servers, couldn't the network as a whole be used as reference instead of a database?
I'm actually thinking of adding this ability to my current software project Pushchange.
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Some slashdotters have already identified this technique of using a combination of using javascript, xml, and dhtml has been around for some time (the article even says its mature). It has been refferred to in the past as javascript remoting or dhtml depending on what your talking about. I work for a company with a web database app that uses a similar technique. Our product, Sysbotz Enterprise has been in development about a year now which show you the age here.
I think the big deal here is not some much the technique or the new label they are giving it (ajax). Rather a educational effort to inform developers to thing past the traditional load page, post form, process, return results back to web browser concept of web apps. The web app needs to broaden its abilities and needs to be more interactive which greatly limits its uses.
I have seen those numbers too, but they are based on proto-type versions of games, not the final retail games. This is probably the reason why most news outlet sources are holding back from giving actual battery life stats, until the final version of the games come out.
Still, when you also factor into that preliminary figure of 4-6 hours of game play the 10-20 seconds of load time, various other second of load time (game menu, etc), and in between game load time, the actual time you get to control the action will be less. Plus current generation PS2 games are using data streaming from CD to reduce load time which according to Sony will be a no no on the PSP. So I would expect the load time to be even greater on the PSP games compared to the current crop of PS2 games.
My other complaint with the PSP is its control scheme, it has a D-Pad and Analog pad on the same side of the system, resulting in a controller layout thats not very good for first-person or 3rd person perspective games (where on controls the movement the other view). They should have put the analog pad on the other side in my opinion, or put a 2nd analog pad on the other side. Similar to any current console system.
SimpleData CRM/ERP business software. Works on IE and Netscape, and runs on open-source amp (apache mysql php) platform. I work for this company and we have already over a 100 company sites using it.
I actually left a good job for personal reasons (What? I know, I loved that job, but I wanted to move closer to my family). I moved to a new area and couldn't find Tech work there at all (Pennsylvania). So I started a business with my own savings called Sysbotz and it takes time to get a viable software business going. Like some one mentioned before its not always what you think that will sell, but what the customer thinks. The major tip I could give is to listen to the customer, that includes checking up on how there doing, seeing if they see anything that needs improvements. Like what was mentioned before too, it may take a few months of not making anything before you see anything, so plan for this too. Open source projects are a great starting point too and could use the help, if you see a viable open source project why not contribute some of you new found spare time and offer business services around it.
I have received over 30 emails with this virus attached today already. From what I've seen, some come in the email described in the article post, but I have also seen emails containing this virus that look like this: The following email is encoded in UNICODE format please see attachment for message. - or - This file is encoded in 7Bit ascii format please see attachment for message. The attachment is always 22.6k in size. Thought windows slashdotters would be interested in this info.
This is great news, but I'm still stuck until Fireworks MX will run under Linux. I was able to get Dreamweaver MX and Flash MX to run under Wine to some success. But both where some what unstable (Enough to be unusable) and looking at the bronze rating it was given, Codeweaver states not to "depend" on a program with this rating, so I will wait a little more... Fireworks on the other hand, I never could get running. And searching the web could never find anyone that got it running under wine. Codeweaver if you are listening. Most developers/designers who use Dreamweaver or Flash also use Fireworks, and it would be great if you could work to get that working too.
I work and develope for this company, but we make a program called 'Systems Panel' that pretty much fits your requirements. It also has the ability to centralize IT links, downloads, and technical article.
What I mean by finnicky is certain configuration aspects could be automatically filled in for you during the install, but instead it makes you fill out the whole configuration file when installing new software. Maybe this isn't particularly related to the OS but it has a effect on the whole Linux experience. Some might say this is a good thing, look what happens when the system does to much automatically. Like Windows, people install by clicking next the whole time and never give consideration to security. But at the same time do I really need to specify what my library paths are or the like. Can't this stuff be auto detected during install. Though once every thing is running things work great.
Another idea maybe to have a program that compares md5 checksums between a number of computer systems on a network instead. Considering most people will deploy the same OS and alot of the same version binaries across a bunch of there servers, couldn't the network as a whole be used as reference instead of a database?
I'm actually thinking of adding this ability to my current software project Pushchange.